Countries
Cambodia
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, France, United States of America
Somalia
Regulated By
-
-
Interesting Facts
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Lao Language
Somali Language
Derived From
Pali and Sanskrit Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5334
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
2010
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3324
9
60
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Scripts
Khmer
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
45
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
akkam
Thank You
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
រាត្រីលា
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
លើកលែងរសៀល
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
សូម
Maaloo
Sorry
សូរី
naa dhiisi
Bye
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
សូមទាញយក
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Northern Khmer
Borana
Where They Speak
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khmer Krom
Orma
Where They Speak
Vietnam
Kenya
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Western Khmer
Wata
Where They Speak
Cambodia, Thailand
Kenya
How Many People Speak
16,000,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
617
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
16.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.24 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
13.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
16.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Cambodian, Khmer
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
khmer central
galla
German Name
Kambodschanisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Oromos
Origin
14
16
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
-
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Khmer
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Khmer
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
191
1
120
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Signed Forms
Khmer Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
km
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
khm
orm
ISO 639 2/B
khm
orm
ISO 639 3
khm
orm
ISO 639 6
khm
orm
Glottocode
khme1253
nucl1736
Linguasphere
48-ACB
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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